My Fair Share of Happiness
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Aug 22, 20196 min read
Truth and Telling Stories
What is our responsibility to represent truth on stage? As a person who makes theatre- dare I group us? Yes, I do- as people who make...
Jan 18, 201919 min read
Grief, Two and a bit years on.
For reasons that I don’t totally understand, I went to university and never wrote a dissertation. I did a practical module at a local...
Aug 23, 20183 min read
Women, Woman, and Woe-man
Women. Men. Humans. I am herewith self-publishing my answers to an interview that didn’t make the cut. But never fear, it might not be...
Jun 17, 20184 min read
1972: The Future of Sex
I’m currently working on a rather delightful play, ‘1972: The Future of Sex’, originally by The Wardrobe Ensemble (a really interesting...
Dec 9, 20175 min read
Some thoughts on performance and Audience
I’ve written previously about process vs performance, specifically in relation to creating work with ‘community’ groups and in...
Feb 28, 20174 min read
The role of the Director
I run theatre workshops for primary school groups, exploring arts and creativity. At the beginning I’ll introduce myself as a theatre...
Dec 21, 20164 min read
Grief
I have tried, and failed, to write this blog post five times. In fact, this is the scariest thing I have ever written. I want to write...
Sep 21, 20163 min read
Things as they are
I wrote a blog post a while ago about how audiences respond to theatre; about how every one of us is an expert at deciding whether a...
Aug 2, 20167 min read
What’s going on in there? Or: the longest blog post I’ve ever written
We’re into the second week of rehearsals for Anything Other’s first show, All of Me. I’ve been thinking (my mother: “always dangerous”):...
Jun 20, 20162 min read
About uncertainty (and Theatre)
I’ve heard the word ‘uncertain’ repeated over and over in the news this week. With the EU referendum on Thursday, the killing of MP Jo...
Apr 16, 20163 min read
Why make theatre?
It feels like a question which should be pretty straightforward and simple to answer, but it requires some thought. A lot of it actually....
Jan 29, 20163 min read
A long drive with Fear and Creativity
Well, it’s been a while… I could fall back on ‘not enough time in the day’, or ‘got stuff going down’ (the latter, if I were American, or...
Jan 18, 20152 min read
Script club: an insight into our research and development phase.
Script Club is a project which sees writers going back into the communities in which they grew up to write a new play with, and for, that...
May 28, 20142 min read
Process vs. product (hearts vs. turds)
In the world of community arts there exists a heated debate around process and product and which is the more important. Until recently I...
Jan 31, 20142 min read
Why you know best
“Oh well, you know better than me, but I thought…” is a response that I often get when I’ve just asked someone what they thought of a...
Nov 15, 20132 min read
Creative Sharing
At the beginning of my career and in my first job with a large commercial west-end theatre company, I recall being surprised and inspired...
Oct 21, 20132 min read
Facilitating Lee Harvey Oswald
It’s been a big week for team Lee Harvey Oswald– we’ve now worked our way through Part 1 and Part 2 is well on its way. Gemma and Adam...
Oct 15, 20132 min read
Solving the case of Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald by Michael Hastings explores the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald (played by Adam Gillen), his Russian wife Marina (Gemma...
Sep 26, 20133 min read
Creating a church through the arts- no religious belief required.
I’m currently working on a music project, specifically, a singing project, Snapshot Songs. Run by Barbican/Guildhall Creative Learning...
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